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Robin Mansell (LSE): Power, Hierarchy and the Internet: Why the Internet Empowers and Disempowers. Does the Internet cost us more than it’s worth? Adam Clark Estes on how to build a better Internet. Hua Hsu on how the metaphor of “the cloud” changed our attitude toward the Internet. The web is a severe distraction to the contemplative act of writing: Michelle Dean reviewsChanging the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age by Sven Birkerts. The new mind control: The Internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. As we download ever more of our lives on to electronic devices, are we destroying our own internal memory? Gillian Tett on the grand illusion of empowerment: “The internet gives people the impression that they have a voice but in most countries power remains firmly in the hands of the elite”. Jill Lepore reviewsThe Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data by Michael P. Lynch.

Trump is no accident: Republican leaders have long laid the groundwork for the current G.O.P. front-runner’s strategy. Jamelle Bouie on how Trump happened: It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration — white voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. Ed Kilgore on the uncanny similarities between Trump rallies today and George Wallace rallies in ’68. Pity porn for racists: Oliver Willis on how the media wants you to feel sorry for Trump supporters — don’t. National Review confirms that it is, indeed, worse than Donald Trump: “The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible”. Michael Savage tells Donald Trump that protesters are racist against white people. China paper says rise of “racist” Trump shows democracy is scary.

The liberal war over the Obama legacy has already begun: Carlos Lozada reviewsBuyer’s Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down by Bill Press and Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank. Proud of Obama’s presidency, blacks are sad to see him go.